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I had the honor to receive your Excellencys letter of the 25th march with a medal ordered to be struck by the late Congress. my only object in the late war was to render any service in my power in the common cause, and my only hope of reward was that my conduct might meet the approbation of my Country; the obliging manner in which you are pleased to communicate this mark of approbation which...
The President of the United States requests the pleasure of Mr Stone’s company to dinner on Thurs-day next at 4 Oclock. An answer is requested. D , DLC : Stone Papers (Maryland), vol. 1730–1863. No reply from Stone has been found. GW recorded in his diary on Thursday, 24 June, that he entertained Stone, along with several other members of the House of Representatives ( Diaries Donald Jackson...
I received yours of the 12th. 14th. and 17th. together with the several papers mentioned, to which I shall give as much attention, and as soon as my health will permit. In the mean time I thought it not amiss to transmit to you such observations as occurred to me on first reading them. I am not quite satisfied with the reasons given (page 1.) for having recourse to motion for a Standard of...
Estimate of the expences of the diplomatic missions proposed for the U.S. Dollars [A Min]ister Plenipotentiary. His salary 11,250   His Outfit, suppose it to happen once in 7. years, will equal annual sum of 1,607   His Return, suppose it to happen once in 7. years, will equal annual sum of 402   His Secretary 1350   Postage, Couriers &c. about 400 15,009 A Chargé des affaires. His salary 4500...
[ New York, June 22, 1790. On July 3, 1790, Allibone wrote to Hamilton : “I found your letter of the 22d of last month.” Letter not found. ]
Newport [ Rhode Island ] June 22, 1790 . “Your letter of the 7th. instant … did not come into my hands until the 19th.… I hope and trust that the computation of the Auditor will conform with my account.… I have authorized Benjamin Huntington, Esqr. to receive of you on my account Four hundred and Sixty Dollars and twenty six Cents, the sum which by your letter you are ready to pay.” LC ,...
Letter not found: from Jonathan Dayton, 22 June 1790. Letter listed in American Clipper, January 1943.
In order to remove any Objections, to the subscribers Acct of Compe⟨n⟩sation for services renderd during the late War, and for which he has recived any reward, for Services principally undertaken, by the particular Instructions of the Commander in Chief—he hereby humbly begs leave to state some circumstances, which may probably occur to the President—praying that he may be pleased to give a...
Inclosed is copy of the last which we took the Honor of forwarding to your Excellency by the New York Packet. Since which Mr Morris drew on us for £91. which is all he says that he may want The Balance remaining of £4.16 we suppose will be sufficient to repay Mr Young for any charge he might have been at in sending the Books. We most Respectfully are Your Excellency’s Much Hond and Obliged...
The pressure of business as the session approaches its term, the earlier hour at which the House of Representatives has for some time met, and the necessity of devoting a part of the interval to exercise, after so long a confinement, have obliged me to deny myself the pleasure of communicating regularly with my friends. I regret much that this violation of my wishes has unavoidably extended...
I take the liberty to submit to your perusal the inclosed letter, which was transmitted to me, a few days past, from a merchant in Baltimore. The prohibition therein complained of, Strikes deep, at our East India trade. The article of cotton, from that country, is become a very considerable import, and together, with sundry other East India commodities, serve as good remittances to Europe. If...
M r. Hamilton will have the honor of Dineing with the Vice President on the 30 th. of June agreeably to his Obliging invitation RC ( MHi :Adams-Hull Coll.); addressed: “The Vice President of the United States”; endorsed by CA : “Mr Hamilton.”; notation by CA : “Van Berckel Sen / Van Berckel Jun / Gen Knox / Viar / Jefferson / Hamilton / Otto / Andriani / Cazenove / Izard / Butler / Smith /...
Since my Return to Providence I have made enquiry Respecting fit persons to be Surveyors for Warren, Bristol & Pawcatuck River—but I cannot find but one person for the Port of Bri[s]tol, a Mr. Samuel Bozworth who is, as I am informed a very Good Character, & held the office under the State. Mr. Ellery probably may inform you of Suitable persons for the other Two ports. Danl. Updike as mention...
By the command of the President of the United States T. Lear has the honor to enclose for Mr Jefferson perusal a Letter from the Count de Estaing to the President which was alluded to by Mr Short in the letter which Mr Jefferson laid before the president at the time when he delivered the above letter from the Ct de Estaing. Likewise two letters a Memorial & a treatise upon establishing a...
United States [New York] Gentlemen of the Senate, June 23d 1790 In my nomination of persons for Consular appointments on the 4th of the present month, the name of James instead of Joseph Fenwick was by mistake laid before you to be Consul for the port of Bourdeaux. LB , DLC:GW . See GW to the U.S. Senate, 4 June 1790 .
Letter not found. 23 June 1790. Acknowledged in Randolph to JM, 12 July 1790 . Reports that the House has passed a bill adding two members to the board of commissioners for settling the accounts between the United States and the states.
I duly received your favor of Apr. 23. and should have been very happy to have served you by an appointment to a clerkship as you desired; but that I found the offices full, and made it a point not to remove those who were in possession. So that I have not had one single appointment to make. Indeed these posts are so little lucrative that they are hardly worth a gentleman’s coming for from any...
I had understood, before I set out from Monticello for New York in March, that you had remained here the winter, and among the most pleasing circumstances of my journey to this place was the happiness I expected of meeting you here. At Philadelphia I was first informed of your departure. Here again they flatter us with another visit from you. I wish Mr. Church could think our Congress as...
I received, my dear friend, your favor of Apr. 6. It gives me a foretaste of the sensations we are to feel in the next world, on the arrival of any new-comer from the circle of friends we have left behind. I am now fixed here, and look back to Europe only on account of that circle. Could it be transferred here, the measure of all I could desire in this world would be filled up, for I have no...
I arrived at this Place the latter end of March, and undertook the Office, to which the President had been pleased to appoint me, of Secretary of State, which comprehends that of the foreign Affairs. Before I had got through the most pressing Matters which had been accumulating, a long Illness came upon me, and put it out of my Power for many Weeks to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letters. I...
I have been much gratified by the receipt of your favors of the 3d. and 12th. inst. The former, with the papers inclosed in it, was communicated to the president. I feel a sincere sympathy in the pleasure you must have in contemplating the promising genius of your son. His oration contains reflections and views far beyond the ordinary ones of his age. Congress have been much divided on the...
I duly received your favor of May 1. and communicated to the President the part relative to Mr. Larreguy who would have been disposed to pay all possible respect to your recommendation. The first rule on that subject was to appoint a native consul wherever a good one would accept of it: but where no native could be found, the person in possession was confirmed. Dr. Franklin had appointed a Mr....
By the command of the President of the United States T. Lear has the honor to enclose for Mr. Jefferson’s perusal a letter from the Count d’Estaing to the President, which was alluded to by Mr. Short in the letter which Mr. Jefferson laid before the President at the time when he delivered the above letter from the Count d’Estaing, likewise two letters, a memorial, and a treatise upon...
I have to acknolege from you a long list of letters, to wit, Octob. 7. Feb. 2. Mar. 2. 20. 24. and Apr. 5. My apology must be a great throng of my own business during the two months I was at Monticello, and a long illness since my arrival here as well as a great throng of public business, which bids fair indeed, in my present situation, to suppress my private correspondencies. I made it my...
You will have recieved by the last post your commission of Consul for Martinique, which will include the agencies of Ste. Lucie, Tobago, and Cayenne, the agents to be appointed by yourself of such persons natives or foreigners, resident there, or who may go there, as you please. Any reasonable delay of your departure which may be necessary for you to arrange your affairs here will be allowed...
I have duly recieved your favor of June 7. and really wish it were in my power to give a satisfactory opinion as to what should be done relative to the grant of lands therein mentioned: but my absence and attention to other subjects have rendered these so little familiar to my mind, that I am not competent to advise in them. If I recollect rightly, Mr. Mason’s land law was intended by him to...
3957June 1790 (Washington Papers)
Thursday 24th. Exercised on horse back betwn. 5 & 7 Oclock P.M. Enter[t]ained the following Gentlemen at Dinner—viz—Messrs. Gerry, Goodhue, Grout, Leonard Huntingdon, Benson, Boudinot, Cadwalader, Sinnickson, Heister, Scott, Contee, Stone, Brown and Moore of the House of Representatives. Received from the Committee of Enrollment the Act for extending the Judiciary Law to the State of Rhode...
[ New York, June 24, 1790. On August 5, 1790, in Schedule B of his “Report on Additional Sums Necessary for the Support of Government,” Hamilton referred to “The Secretary at War in his Letter to the sec’y of the Treasury dated 24 June 1790.” Letter not found. ]
Treasury Department, June 24, 1790. “No official information has been yet received of the Cession of the Light House at Portland Head.… If you could procure … an Account of the Cost of the Light House, so far as it is built—the height to which it is carried—the height to which it is proposed to be carried, and an estimate of the expence that will attend the Completion of it, I shall be obliged...
3960[Diary entry: 24 June 1790] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 24th. Exercised on horse back betwn. 5 & 7 Oclock P.M. Enter[t]ained the following Gentlemen at Dinner—viz—Messrs. Gerry, Goodhue, Grout, Leonard Huntingdon, Benson, Boudinot, Cadwalader, Sinnickson, Heister, Scott, Contee, Stone, Brown and Moore of the House of Representatives. Received from the Committee of Enrollment the Act for extending the Judiciary Law to the State of Rhode...